2002 Restoration Plan for District Lot 63 of the Pebble Beach Nature Reserve, Galiano Island

 

Galiano Island presents a landscape characteristic of the Coastal Douglas-fir Zone. It has undergone extensive timber removal over the past 100 years. Virtually no lot, across the near 6000ha landbase has been left untouched. Roughly one third of the Islands forest land-base (4,500 hectares) is now less than 30 years old, another third is between the ages of 30 and 80, and the final third is older than 80 years (Map 1). Most of the mature forest is scattered amongst residential developments in protected areas, on crown land, on large privately owned residential lots, and on ridges or bluffs that are difficult to access. In contrast, recently harvested and young forests dominate the entire eastern side of the island from the existing protected areas network on Galiano encompasses over 13% of the Island’s land-base including aquatic, cliff, ridge, bluff, meadowland, bog and forest ecosystems. Opportunities for landscape level linkages between these areas have been identified. One of the highest priorities involves the connection of the Pebble Beach Nature Reserve, Laughlin Lake, Bodega Ridge Reserve, the proposed Trincomali Marine Protected Area, and Wallace Island Provincial Marine Park (Map 2). This cross-island linkage features a range of ecosystem types including a 65 hectare clear-cut plantation that falls between land parcels characterized by mature forest. Due to its protected status, its proximity to older forest ecosystems, its role in a landscape level linkage, and its legacy of human impact, the plantation known as District Lot 63 (DL 63) has been identified as a high priority for ecological restoration.

 

2002 Restoration Plan for District Lot 63 of the Pebble Beach Nature Reserve, Galiano Island

Prepared by:
Nathan Gaylor
Odin Scholz
Keith Erickson
March, 2002

Link to PDF report: 2002 Restoration Plan for District Lot 63 of the Pebble Beach Nature Reserve, Galiano Island.